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Forest must be constrained by a different FFP to us.

I don’t think it’s a terrible signing. Assume we’re signing him because he could also slot in and replace Wilson, if needed. Not sure it’s much of an upgrade though. Although it’ll be good to relegate Wood further away from the side.

What else do you look at? Assists? He’s got 3 of those in 73 appearances. 13 goals and 3 assists in 73 games is barely any better than Miggy, who is generally slated on here.

Because every deal is riddled with dodgy payments and useful for even dodgier accounting.

I must have missed the memo where it was shared that you can only contact the Trust via email and speaking directly to a Trust Board member means it’s ignored. Maybe that was another update shared by email.

Only a few posts ago you were providing me with your Trust email address, telling me to contact you and the Trust via that.

Nobody is seriously saying there is anything underhand with it, more the ridiculousness the inability to progress with it.

The only post @Greg managed to interact with, despite loads of helpful suggestions in others. “Join the Trust, or you’re not allowed a voice.” “Have a voice? Email us discreetly.” “Actually, we don’t like your voice as it’s not what we want to do, fuck off”. @LFEEAnd this is the response from the Trust, not sure how this lends well with your “get involved if you want to change/support it” mantra. I thought the Board were there to act on behalf of their membership, rather than their own thoughts.

We’re not being quoted daft amounts though, that’s the frustration. If Leicester were asking for £100m for Maddison, or Watford wanted £60m for Pedro, I could understand this point of view. The reality is the valuations that selling clubs have allegedly put forward all seem fairly reasonable.

To add a slight caveat, assuming those people giving help are reasonable qualified to do so. Otherwise you’ll potentially end up with tens of people doing random things that wouldn’t help anything. Wouldn’t hurt to have a few advisors who potentially wouldn’t even need to sit on the Board but could provide professional advice within their own remits. A communications lead or someone with governance experience at Board level, for example. Their membership is so vast, they’re bound to have people with these skills.

Which is why they should make use of people who are offering to support them. But they can’t, because Alex won’t allow it.

I wasn’t saying it is one or the other, I think email is absolutely right to use, but all of the communication channels should be utilised to reach the widest audience. It doesn’t really make much sense not to do so. So you’re unwilling to discuss it on here and want to move it to an email discussion? That’s sort of my point above about the communication, 90% of the Trust communication appears to be hidden as much as possible, almost like it’s known to be wrong and not wanting to share it more widely. 7+ months of avoiding the topic and it continues to be ignored. 7+ months of making excuses, but never communicating updates, about the charity money. A Trust should be open and transparent, particularly when we’re talking about the use of people’s money. This Trust isn’t. I’ve offered numerous times to try and help the Trust and have made several positive suggestions on improvements that could be made. All of which have been ignored. @LFEEI’d love to be part of it but would never command the online presence needed to be voted in. Hence why I’ve wanted to try and help and support in any other way, but that offer is never taken up. That’s another part of the problem, electing the Board is a popularity contest and people like Hurst will routinely be voted in with a nod and a wink because of the presence they hold. It’d be much better for a hybrid approach of some elections as well as a ballot of members (who wish to put themselves forward), which would also allow as many people to get involved as possible.

A very polite way of putting it. He’s a footballer who is incredibly talented but doesn’t want to work hard. You see that by the managers who discard him; Mourinho, Conte etc. He’s a lazy bastard more interested in his own phenomenon than performing at the top level. But why should he? A multimillionaire before he’s even out of nappies and set for life.

To be fair, it’s not far off being worthy of a thread based on the Ramos one.

Seems like a really credible source.

By who?

Quicker this lad is turned into glue the better.

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Maupay is dreadful Goes to show how shite some of the scouting is when three teams are fighting over a player who has proven consistently he’s shite at PL level. Brighton have been slated universally for years for not having a decent striker.

Shwan more added to the staff can’t be a bad thing.

What does the Pedro signing mean for the Paquetá signing?

Social media pivotal to your point here, but not a few hours ago. Maybe you’ve just missed it. I won’t keep going around in circles. Your defence of NUST is no better than Edwards’ defence of Bruce because he likes him. NUST has been a disaster of an organisation, including under Greg’s leadership. You’re wrong about my expectations, as I’ve pointed out several times. If they’re too busy to send out communications to their members, as an absolute basic, then they shouldn’t be in the role. Plenty of people willing to replace them, but they can’t, because it’s Hurst’s closed shop. Weird how they’re never too busy to visit the club all day for free. But they can’t manage a 5 minute message. I assume Greg must have gone back to work since he’s disappeared after ignoring the questions about Hurst again.

Is there anyone we aren’t interested in? Just seems like we’re randomly throwing bids around hoping that one of them does something.

Defence mechanism because he’s quite clearly right.

Feel bizarrely confident we’ll get something from this. Usually with Newcastle that means we’ll put in a terrible performance and get humped, but here’s hoping we buck that trend.